B&Q confirms Widnes store to shut by end of 2016

The B&Q store at Widnes Waterfront on Dennis Road will close by the end of the year, the DIY retailer has confirmed.

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A DIY giant has confirmed that its store in Widnes will close by the end of 2016.

Last year, B&amp;Q announced that around 60 stores would be axed over the following two years.

Despite initially confirming that its store at the Widnes Waterfront on Dennis Road was not among those earmarked for closure, in October a B&amp;Q spokeswomen said that it had let workers know that the site was to shut during the 2016-17 financial year.

Though the DIY retailer has now told the

Weekly News that no closure date has been fixed, a spokesman has confirmed that the Widnes store will shut by the end of 2016.

The spokesman said: “We can confirm that staff at B&amp;Q Widnes have been told that their store is set to close later this year, no date has been confirmed as yet.

“When the time comes, we will endeavour to find positions for as many staff as possible.”

At the end of last March, B&amp;Q’s parent company Kingfisher published preliminary results for the year ending in January 2015 and chief operating officer Véronique Laury confirmed in a results document that around 60 stores would close around the UK and Ireland over the next two years.

She added at the time that the store closures would be the first in a set of ‘sharp’ decisions which would include shutting ‘around 15%’ of B&amp;Q’s surplus space in the UK and Ireland.

In an interim results document for the half year which ended at the start of August 2015, Kingfisher said it was ‘on track’ to close the stores by the end of the 2016-17 financial year.